Thank you all for your concern and kind comments.  We’re both home and husband is out of the woods.  Not to get too medical, but it was one of those situations where a medicine prescribed turns out to be the very worst thing possible with an unexpected, potentially lethal side-effect.  Still, all’s well that ends well.  Martin, you’ve had a terrible time and you’re much in my thoughts.  May all go well with you.

All the sold pens are dispatched and now I’m beginning to catch up with other things.  I have some wonderful pens to post about, some Swans, some other interesting pens.

Thank you all again.  Here’s a very fine Swan logo from around 1910: